I've got Gpsdrive running under X/Qt-debian quite nicely. I first tried without Debian by using gpsdrive from the Familiar feed together with X/Qt, which has all the packages required by the latest version of Gpsdrive (2.09) in its "testing" feed. However, I gave up after experiencing too many library incompatibility problems.I wanted to try Debian anyway!

So now with Debian, I could just run "apt-get install gpsdrive" and Hey presto! There were a few additional things I had to do, however, which I did over a couple of months, so hopefully these are the most important notes I can remember on setting up :

*** NOTE. If you are just starting to look at GPS apps, I'd seriously take a look at Qpegps first. It's an excellent app that's written for Qtopia, so it's much better suited to the Zaurus and a lot easier to set up. It's just that Gpsdrive has additional functionality and I liked the challenge of getting it running. ***

# MAKEDEV ttyS3 ## to create the device within the Debian environment.

At various stages I needed to do a chmod 666 on /dev/ttyS3 (after installing gpsd, I think) and /dev/audio.

You don't need cardctl, setserial or anything like that if you have "cru" from the pocketworkstation Debian distribution (part of the postinstall script, I think). This will let you run such commands as cardctl from Qtopia whilst still in Debian.

Also, you don't need to install gpsd. The latest version of Gpsdrive will talk directly to your serial device.

I created a user "zaurus" with the same UID and GID as in Qtopia. This is to stop Gpsdrive complaining if you try and start it as root.

# -x is to create separate windows for Menu and Status.# -1 is for 1 button mouse. May be better off without this.# Took me ages to get the right numbers for height and width for C750 in portrait# mode. These numbers seem to relate to map size rather than screen size.# Any numbers above these and Gpsdrive will ignore -r and -s. # -r is width# -s is height# -S don't show splash screen# -e use Flite for speech output (more on this later)

Installed MySQL for the waypoints database. Wrote a script to import the list of all UK speed traps into MySQL. There are too many for Gpsdrive/MySQL to handle - Gpsdrive crashes! Strangely enough, using a text file for waypoints seems to be faster and more stable than using a database.

Installed flite for speech output.

All was working nicely, except there was no speech output. A quick mail to the very responsive Gpsdrive mailing list and soon there was a fix in the CVS version of gpsdrive.

Installed all the apps/libs necessary for a build environment and compiled the CVS version for Debian/ARM.

Hope this information is useful to someone. If anyone is interested in the latest CVS binary of gpsdrive for Debian/ARM, I can post it here.

You could also try the pdaXrom gpsdrive package that Zumi made recently - it might work on X/Qt-debian but I haven't tried it. It's built from a recent CVS source, so it includes flite support. See the following thread :-

You should find them in the normal Debian feeds, as detailed in your sources.list.

If you're after the latest CVS version of gpsdrive (with flite support working), I don't think there is a feed for that yet - you'll have to wait for an official release.

However, I could send you the gpsdrive binary that I compiled from the CVS version if you wish, over PM or whatever. You still need to apt-get the latest, stable version from the feed and then overwrite the installed version of the "gpsdrive" binary with my version. Then you need to install libart from the normal feed.

In fact, I'll try attaching the binary to this message. Fingers crossed ... I think I managed to attach the binary but had to add a .ipk file extension. Rename the file back to "gpsdrive".

i already have gpsd from my qpeGPSdo i still need to install yours?thanks

Mmmm, that's a potential can of worms. First of all, you don't need gpsd at all because gpsdrive will talk directly to your serial device. However, you might still want to use gpsd because it gives you a network port that can be used by other applications such as kismet. You CAN use the gpsd from qpeGPS, if you wish, and this will save you from having to create a serial device within Debian (ttyS3), but it also means that you have to start gpsd from your Qtopia environment.

So, basically my recommendation to start with at least is to ignore gpsd for the moment, create ttyS3 (see earlier instructions) and when you start up gpsdrive, make sure to check the box that says something like "use serial connection". Gpsdrive should then be able to pick up data directly from your CF GPS device.

This question would be better directed at Meanie because I'm not running from an icon under Qt, I'm running from an icon in Xfce under Debian. I called the script gpsdrive.sh and put it in /usr/local/bin.

Probably my script could be run from Qt with a few modifications, but because I've never used Meanie's jumbo package, I wouldn't know what to advise here. The "cru" stuff at least should be removed because you're enabling the card from within Qtopia. A simple "cardctl enable" should suffice.